StyleZeitgeist Podcast: Paris Fashion Week S/S 21 with Philippe Pourhashemi
We break down the Spring / Summer 21 season with the journalist and fashion critic Philippe Pourhashemi.
Richie Hawtin on the Interdisciplinary Nature of Creativity (and That Prada / Raf Simons Show Soundtrack)
The Prada Spring / Summer ’21 collection co-designed by Raf Simons would’ve been big news in any season, but even more so in one where much excitement has been torpedoed by Covid-19.
Prada S/S21 Women’s – Milan
We would like to present to you Prada’s Spring/Summer 2021 Women’s, the debut collection by co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons.
Paris Fashion Week Ramblings – Men’s F/W 2019, Part 1
And so it was on again, amidst confusion as to what designers should be designing and whom they should be catering to.
Paris Fashion Week Rambling – S/S 19 Shows
The fashion calendar is getting weirder and weirder.
Raf Simons S/S19 Men’s – Paris
We would like to present to you Raf Simons’ Spring/Summer 2019 Men’s Paris collection.
Photography by Matthew Reeves.
Old Designs, New Life, New Money
This past summer Raf Simons held a show in New York City’s Chinatown that was ostensibly based on the movie Blade Runner. The presentation had plenty of Runner-esque elements; the darkness, the wetness were reflected in the umbrellas and the raincoats that Simons showed. But there was one element in the collection that made no sense at all – the New Order and Joy Division graphics that Simons used liberally throughout have nothing to do with Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi film, at least nothing I could discern. Simons showed the same graphics by Peter Saville, whom he is friends with, that he showed in his seminal Fall/Winter 2003 collection, “Closer, “ named after a Joy Divison album.
Byronesque Brings Vintage Raf Simons, Helmut Lang, and Martin Margiela to Opening Ceremony
The curated vintage website Byronesque, run by Gill Linton, has landed at Opening Ceremony in New York. It is the first time that Byronesque presents menswear, capitalizing on the hot market for vintage Raf Simons and Helmut Lang. The pop-up store also includes some pieces from the short-lived cult London brand Vexed Generation, and a dedicated to room to Margiela’s iconic womenswear pieces. But Linton’s venture is not just about commerce – she sources what she loves, so we don’t expect her hawking vintage Hermes bags any time soon. “I was very careful not to have any filler here,” Linton told us when we visited the space yesterday. The pop-up will go on until July 23rd with stock replenished as rack space allows.
Fashion Week Ramblings – S/S 2017
If I had to summarize this past menswear season, it’d be the one of plenty of good product and few good ideas. It was neither weak nor strong, pretty much in tune with what I have come to expect of fashion as of late.
Men’s fashion has been now thoroughly splintered into parts that cater to the youngsters and to the adults, and nowhere has this been more evident than at Pitti Uomo in Florence, where the bulk of the trade fair itself is devoted to traditional menswear, and where three designers that are of interest to the young were showing – Gosha Rubchinkiy, Visvim, and Raf Simons.
Maison Margiela S/S17 – Paris
We would like to present to you Maison Margiela’s Spring/Summer 2017 Men’s Paris collection.